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Bella Layone and Mia Van Dort-Gilmore

Schmick Contemporary
2026

Bella Layone and Mia Van Dort-Gilmore explore images from the perspective of diaspora as fragments of place; lieux de mémoires of the expanding cycle of the past, of the current. These images serve as guides to orient themselves, their heritage, and their communities within a world shattered between the local and the militarised borders of the global politic. By untangling these fragments from the linear timelines of Empire, Layone and Van Dort Gilmore evidence that place can be remembered and recovered, even from a distance.

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CelebratoryNarjis Mirza, Joel Sherwood Spring, 
Luca Leggo, and Zainab Hikmet

Schmick Contemporary
2025
Falling through a sea of motion, separate drifts, surfaces colliding, the artists of celebratory revel in their difference. Narjis Mirza, Joel Sherwood Spring, Luca Leggo, and Zainab Hikmet each approach from separate perspectives of systems of power, their works standing to resist, reinterpret, and disrupt. The often complacent stained-white walls of a gallery become space to be reorganised, to mobilise, and to finally, land into place.

                                                                                                                          - Will Naufahu

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SequenceKika Kereru Baker, Eloise Farley, Sarah Wadey, 
Mia Van Dort-Gilmore, Gabriella Boyd, 
Alek Stoikovich, Jade Andersen, Olivia Lindgaard,
Sophie Tunks, and Sarah R. Serfati


Backspace Gallery
2024
United by conceptual and formal practices around chronology, memory, and time, Sequence brings together Gadigal-based artists engaging with the multiple.